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High School Boot Camp

The Press Club holds an annual Boot Camp for high school journalists. It's an opportunity for students to learn the basics about reporting, editing, still photography, shooting video and other skills needed to put out a student publication. The Boot Camp is typically held in the spring.

NEW BOARD MEMBERS: Jim Kirkland, Jon Orlin and Bill Parks were welcomed to the board.

Jim Kirkland is the creative director of Climate Magazine in Redwood City. He has enjoyed nearly 40 years in the graphics industry. In that time, he has worked as a photographer, journalist, videographer, illustrator, cartoonist, graphic artist, art director and creative director for numerous corporations and as a freelancer.

Jon Orlin is an award-winning television producer and media strategist who heads Orlin Media. He was an executive producer at CNN, founded Yahoo! Studios and ran TechCrunch TV. He won a Peabody for CNN’s coverage of the stock market crash, an Emmy for CNN’s coverage of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta and a Webby for Best Broadband site for Yahoo’s FinanceVision.

Bill Parks is a journalism instructor at Ohlone College. Before his current semi-retirement he advised the Ohlone student newspaper, the Monitor, for 20 years. Before that he worked seven years in sailing magazines, and more than 25 years in newspapers out of Michigan, New Mexico, Montana and California.

NAME CHANGE: Ed motioned to change the club's name to the San Francisco Press Club, dropping the word "Peninsula" from the title. Seconded by Jim Kirkland. Approved unanimously.

TAX MATTERS: Antonia said she got a letter from the IRS reinstating the club as a Section 501 (c) (3) nonprofit entity.

CONTEST: Terry Williams will be the director of the contest. Tentatively, the entry period would run from July 24-Sept. 15. Judging would occur between Sept. 15-Oct. 15 and the awards presentation would take place in the third week of November, time and location TBA. Antonia is exploring venues. Ed has pared down the categories in the contest, mainly to eliminate those that didn't attract any entries in the past. The board discussed whether the presentation should occur on a Saturday, as it had in the past, or on another date, but that matter wasn't resolved.

BOARD COMMUNICATION: Jon proposed the board use the Slack platform for communicating and transmitting documents. The board agreed to give it a try.

D&O INSURANCE: Dave explained the need for such a policy. The idea for getting this insurance was originally suggested by Carla. Dave has sent Antonia an application that needs to be submitted in order to get a solid price quote.